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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    Off topic but, many (not all) secularists tend to look at radiometric dating ASSUMING:there was no decayed material (Lead/Pb) at the beginning. However, the Bible seems to imply there was decayed material to begin with in that: The world was made fully mature and functional. This is a huge...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    If you believe chimps and humans are 99% similar, I assume you yourselves have hashed and rehashed the data ON YOUR OWN, not just read the arguments and presentations of others, right? Just because you are not a geneticist does not relieve you of your ability and responsibility to look at the...
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    Genetic Code is INFORMATION: Proof of Intelligent Design

    You have a solid, confirmable basis for everything you believe? Not! Let's start with the origin of the universe. 1) What do you believe? 1a) How has your belief been confirmed - scientifically? Note: 'Confirm' in my usage means to have no doubt - at all. 2) In whatever you believe...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    uh, well, that's not how a forum discussion works. As of now, only a few people are contributing their analysis of the study article. This thread is not meant to be a single pair discussion. I'm still waiting for more input from the rest of you all....
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    I invite you to contribute your own analysis to the Nature 2005 article. Why do you believe it? Stats, charts, etc. please. I thank you in advance.
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    Genetic Code is INFORMATION: Proof of Intelligent Design

    And here's another thing: If I assume - on a daily basis - that instruction books don't write themselves, why am i making an exception when it come to DNA? If I assume - on a daily basis - that things like cars and boats cannot be compressed into a single point, why do i make an exception when...
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    Genetic Code is INFORMATION: Proof of Intelligent Design

    I consider those reasonings and logic which I use on a daily basis: 1) Do i assume on a daily basis - as i go about my business - that instruction books form on their own? No 2) Do i assume on a daily basis - as i go about my business - that a mass as large as a universe is compressible into...
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    Genetic Code is INFORMATION: Proof of Intelligent Design

    It is crucially important for me to know my own natural inclinations and leanings: 1) I generally don't want a higher authority to answer to (even if there is one). 2) I generally see myself as wise enough on my own (even if I'm not as wise as i think I am). We all have bigger heads than we...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    The article statement in post #45 above PROVES beyond all doubt that they DID NOT USE COMPLETE GENOMES of either chimp or human for the comparison. It says: "All scaffolds that were completely overlapped by another scaffold based on the human position were then removed. Also removed were the...
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    No Such Thing as an Ex-Christian!

    God made us the most relational creatures in the world. We can communicate and relate in ways that supercede all other creatures on earth. This is because we were created in God's image, and our God is a relational God. And the primary purpose God made us relational is so we can have a...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    The aspect of Alternative Splicing (AS) of our DNA is the area of our genetics most likely to show the big differences with chimps but has been barely studied, much less compared to chimps. Why is this important? Because this process can cause a similar gene to make a completely different...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    The differences between humans and chimps is slowly being acknowledged by scientists: (ref: Mapping Human Genetic Ancestry, Oxford Journals, 2007): "For about 23% of our genome, we share no immediate genetic ancestry with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. This encompasses genes and...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    Then we have the problem of CONTAMINATION: (ref: Abundant Human DNA Contamination Identified in Non-Primate Genome Databases, PLOS-ONE, 2011): "Using a primate specific SINE, AluY, we screened 2,749 non-primate public databases from NCBI, Ensembl, JGI, and UCSC and have found 492 to be...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    We must define the word "complete". To me, "complete" means comparing the "compete" human genome with the "complete" chimp genome. This was not done. Nature (2005): Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome "Here we present a draft genome sequence of the...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    So some of you believers in evolution believe we have been shown almost all - if not ALL - genetic evidence to be completely convinced that we are 95-99% genetically similar to chimps, correct? I can actually see why some of you believe this... Here is one common example of a flurry of...
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    Genetic Code is INFORMATION: Proof of Intelligent Design

    BTW, can anyone here give us an example of a language developing without an intellectual source? A genetic code cannot be used as an example, of course, because that would be circular reasoning.
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    Genetic Code is INFORMATION: Proof of Intelligent Design

    Here is another article by Genome News Networking which confirms our genetic code is classified as a language. So we must ask ourselves, in our real-world experiences, are languages generated by anything other than non-intellectual sources? "Genome sequencing is often compared to "decoding,"...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    Since some here seem to be 'believers' in the 95-99% similarity between chimps and humans, and assuming this is an easily verifiable scientific fact with tons of literature on the studies, would any of you 'believers' like to provide us with a "non-fringe" article specifically stating/claiming...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    The study I referred to above is from the PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). See my post above. So this is a "fringe" study? To who? Does anyone else here believe the National Academy of Sciences is a fringe organization? If so, what makes it fringe? Here is a brief...
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    99% Chimp DNA Similarity? Not!

    Size of the human genome reduced to 19,000 genes Date: July 3, 2014, Science Daily Summary: "A new study updates the number of human genes to 19,000; 1,700 fewer than the genes in the most recent annotation..." Just saying, if they are REDUCING the total number of genes every year by...
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